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I often find myself using jupyter notebooks for "back of the envelope" calculations, which are sometimes interesting enough (to me) that I want to publish them. - I wish there were…

Webcola is great -- but no docs or support.

Seems like rigorous data science on the statistics of people graduating with humanities degrees. Doesn't that seem just a little bit ironic?

This is beautiful work!

I'm really perplexed by this refrain that CDB is "not psychoactive" > A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that changes brain function…

Base editors can make all 12 conversions as of 4ish months ago I think.

Cas9 does not edit DNA, it cleaves DNA. What happens afterwards is up to the cell. The hype machine has ignored this fact. One of my favorite George Church quotes: "CRISPR: some ca…

The original paper is https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30629-3 There was a nice follow up last week https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(18)30714-1 There's…

There are slots devoted specifically to folks who get workshop papers in. I registered a couple days ago. To be fair, I agree NIPS registration is getting a little out of hand, but…

My qualm with this article is disappointingly poorly backed up. The author makes claims, but does not justify those claims well enough to convince anyone but people who already agr…

Who is behind this?

Put Fuchsia and Android green on a color wheel. I dare you.

Do you know of any good alternatives? Any way to write MapReduces in python?

I wonder if Github is working on something like this. I'm sure they're familiar with the idea and they seem like the best team to bring it online. They're still a startup looking f…

It seems no one commenting here is actually from Palo Alto.